As the U.S. economy turns out greater and greater mountains of goods, the demand grows for trucks to haul them.
By the end of 1968, truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present a year of sales in excess of $4 billionand see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach 2,250,000 by 1975."
Knudsen has good reason to gloat. For...